{"id":3360,"date":"2010-01-22T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:50:37","slug":"sit-down-and-stay-a-while-liberal-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3360\/sit-down-and-stay-a-while-liberal-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit Down and Stay a While, Liberal Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a rough week for progressives in the U.S.\u00a0  First, they lose a Senate seat in liberal Massachusetts, relieving them of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.\u00a0 Then, the Supreme Court strikes down another onerous McCain-Feingold regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Air America, the lone liberal bastion of talk radio, has closed its doors for good.\u00a0  Though Air America had been through Chapter 11 bankruptcy once before, the recent economic recession forced the company to shut its doors and undergo a complete liquidation.\u00a0  Fin.<\/p>\n<p>There is some bad news for conservatives and libertarians.\u00a0  Al Franken, former host, will not be silenced by this bankruptcy.\u00a0  He\u2019s now in the Senate making outlandish comments and still annoying the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/airamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click here<\/span><\/a> for the Air America statement.\u00a0  It\u2019s sad, in a schadenfreude way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a rough week for progressives in the U.S.\u00a0 First, they lose a Senate seat in liberal Massachusetts, relieving them of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.\u00a0 Then, the Supreme Court strikes down another onerous McCain-Feingold regulation. Now, Air America, the lone liberal bastion of talk radio, has closed its doors for good.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[770,771,326,159],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-air-america","tag-al-franken","tag-fairness-doctrine","tag-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}